Document Type : Research Paper
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This study designed and investigated the Relationship between aerobic power to physical activity levels and anthropometric factors among 12-16 Year- Old Boys. Therefore 275 Bardaskan's male adolescents aged 12-16 selected using random cluster sampling. subject Characteristics include height, weight, BMI, WHR, body fat percent, physical activity level, body surface area and aerobic power, where was measured using the validated methods. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and Spearman correlation coefficients, multiple regression and Anova in SPSS version 15. The results showed that there was significant inverse relationship between aerobic power and indicators of age (r=-0.35), weight (r=-0.34), fat percent (r=-0.47), BMI (r=-0.42), WHR (r=-0.20), and body surface area (r=-0.30) (p<0.01). There was not significant correlation between aerobic power and Height (r=-0.14).There was significant positive correlation between aerobic power and Physical activity levels (PAL) (r=0.47). Aerobic power was significantly higher in subjects with high level PAL than subjects with moderate and low PAL. The Rates aerobic power and level of physical activity was significantly decreased with increasing age. It can be concluded that regard to PAL increase in subjects with high BMI, WHR, Weight, body fat percentage is useful to prevent from reduction of cardiopulmonary fitness. As well as Age, body fat percentage and physical activity were factors that affected the relative maximum oxygen uptake of boys.
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